Alsace Lorraine Since 1870 1919

Author : Barry Cerf
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 202 pages
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Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447482246

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Alsace-Lorraine Since 1870 by Barry Cerf Pdf

This fascinating book, originally published in 1919 as the First World War drew to a close tackles the question of Alsace-Lorraine, one of the chief causes of the war and the most important obstacles to peace. Cerf addressed the book to Americans in order to present facts which would “confirm the belief that peace can be restored to Europe and the world only after the return of the lost provinces to France”. A compelling read that is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of the amateur and professional historian alike. Contents: Germany’s Claims to Alsace-Lorraine; The Consent of the Governed; Persecution: 1871-1914; The Question of Autonomy; The Failure of Germanization; During the War; The Economic Question; The Question of a Plebiscite; Conclusion; Bibliography. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Barry Cerf
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230339485

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Alsace-Lorraine Since 1870 by Barry Cerf Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII THE ECONOMIC QUESTION THE LORRAINE IRON The Rheinisch-W estfalische Zeitung said after the beginning of the present war: "Bismarck was actuated solely by strategic reasons when he annexed AlsaceLorraine. But the country had a considerable economic value. 1) We have at Pechelbronn, in Alsace, the only important oil-well in all Germany. ... 2) In Upper-Alsace there are rich potash deposits. If this region belonged to France, the German potash monopoly, which renders all foreign lands, especially North America, tributary to our country, would be lost. . . 3) . . . Terror strikes us when we think what would have happened to us in the present war if we had not had the Lorraine iron fields in our possession. . . ." Wetterle, L'Alsace-Lorraine doit . . ., p. 170. ) Of the production of iron ore within the district covered by the Zollverein (Germany and Luxembourg) in 1913, which amounted to almost 36,000,000 tons, 21,100,000 came from Lorraine and 7,300,000 from Luxembourg. The Rheinisch-W estfalische Zeitung may well shudder with terror at the thought of what would have happened to Germany in the present war but for the iron lands she seized fifty years ago in Lorraine, a country as French as Gascony, a country which had been thor i The slag, a by-product of the Lorraine iron industry, is valuable as fertilizer. In 1914, America imported 74,588 tons of it, valued at $20 a ton. (S. Brooks, in North American Review, November, 1917, p. 698.) oughly French as far back as history carries us. Germany, however, never would have engaged in this war but for her gains in the war of 1870; it would have been utterly impossible for her to plan and execute the attack of 1914 but for her possession of the Lorraine iron. THE BBIBY BASIN...

Author : Charles Hazen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545369615

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History of Europe 1870 - 1919 by Charles Hazen Pdf

THE year 1870 will long remain memorable in the annals of Europe. For in that year occurred a great and decisive war whose outcome was destined to exercise a large and profound influence upon the history of the subsequent period; whose consequences were to prove pervasive, far-reaching and unhappy, just as the four terrible years through which the world has recently passed will inevitably determine the future of the world for many decades to come. There was a certain tragic unity to that intervening period between the Franco-Prussian War and the World War, the shadow of the former, the dread of the latter hovering over the minds of men, full of menace, inspiring a recurrent sense of uneasiness and alarm. All the various streams of activity, all the different movements, national and international, social and economic, intellectual and spiritual, all the complex and diverse phenomena of the life of Europe during that crowded half-century took their form and color largely from the memory of war, the fear of war, the preparation for war. A period like that is surely worth studying. Indeed only if men acquire or possess a just understanding of it, only if they retain a vivid sense of its lessons and its warnings, will they be able to avert a repetition of its horrors, only thus will they have the aid of either chart or compass on their voyage into the future. But apart from this general feeling of insecurity and apprehension, inspired by the Franco-Prussian War, that war had several immediate and specific consequences which must inevitably render the year 1870 notable in the history of modern times and which furnish a proper starting-point for this narrative. The war of 1870 completed the unification of Germany and created the German Empire. It completed, also, the unification of Italy, by giving to the kingdom, as its capital, the incomparable city of Rome. It overthrew the Second Empire in France and produced the Third Republic. It robbed France of Alsace-Lorraine for the benefit of Germany and thus embedded militarism in the life of Europe...

Author : Charles Downer Hazen
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9788026899389

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The Greatest Works of Charles Downer Hazen by Charles Downer Hazen Pdf

This meticulously edited Charles Downer Hazen collection includes monographs on XIX century European history from this notable American historian. Contents: The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Europe from 1789 to 1918 Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule The French Revolution and Napoleon The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919 The Government of Germany Old Northampton

Author : Charles Hazen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548500577

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History of Europe 1870-1919 (Jovian Press) by Charles Hazen Pdf

THE year 1870 will long remain memorable in the annals of Europe. For in that year occurred a great and decisive war whose outcome was destined to exercise a large and profound influence upon the history of the subsequent period; whose consequences were to prove pervasive, far-reaching and unhappy, just as the four terrible years through which the world has recently passed will inevitably determine the future of the world for many decades to come. There was a certain tragic unity to that intervening period between the Franco-Prussian War and the World War, the shadow of the former, the dread of the latter hovering over the minds of men, full of menace, inspiring a recurrent sense of uneasiness and alarm. All the various streams of activity, all the different movements, national and international, social and economic, intellectual and spiritual, all the complex and diverse phenomena of the life of Europe during that crowded half-century took their form and color largely from the memory of war, the fear of war, the preparation for war. A period like that is surely worth studying. Indeed only if men acquire or possess a just understanding of it, only if they retain a vivid sense of its lessons and its warnings, will they be able to avert a repetition of its horrors, only thus will they have the aid of either chart or compass on their voyage into the future. But apart from this general feeling of insecurity and apprehension, inspired by the Franco-Prussian War, that war had several immediate and specific consequences which must inevitably render the year 1870 notable in the history of modern times and which furnish a proper starting-point for this narrative. The war of 1870 completed the unification of Germany and created the German Empire. It completed, also, the unification of Italy, by giving to the kingdom, as its capital, the incomparable city of Rome. It overthrew the Second Empire in France and produced the Third Republic. It robbed France of Alsace-Lorraine for the benefit of Germany and thus embedded militarism in the life of Europe.

Author : Daniel Blumenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Alsace-Lorraine question
ISBN : YALE:39002009385577

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Alsace-Lorraine by Daniel Blumenthal Pdf

Author : Alison Carrol
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198803911

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The Return of Alsace to France, 1918-1939 by Alison Carrol Pdf

In 1918, the end of the First World War triggered the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France after almost fifty years of annexation into the German Empire. Enthusiastic crowds in Paris and Alsace celebrated the return of the 'lost provinces, ' but return proved far more difficult than expected. Over the following two decades, politicians, administrators, industrialists, cultural elites, and others grappled with the question of how to make the region French again. Differences of opinion emerged, and reintegration rapidly descended into a multi-faceted struggle as voices at the Parisian centre, the Alsatian periphery, and outside France's borders offered their views on how to introduce French institutions and systems into its lost borderland. Throughout these discussions, the border itself shaped the process of reintegration, by generating contact and tensions between populations on the two sides of the boundary line, and by shaping expectations of what it meant to be French and Alsatian. Borderland is the first comprehensive account of the return of Alsace to France which treats the border as a driver of change. It draws upon national, regional, and local archives to follow the difficult process of Alsace's reintegration into French society, culture, political and economic systems, and legislative and administrative institutions. It connects the microhistory of the region with the macro levels of national policy, international relations, and transnational networks, and with the cross-border flows of ideas, goods, people, and cultural products that shaped daily life in Alsace as its population grappled with the meaning of return to France. In revealing the multiple voices who contributed to the region's reintegration, it underlines the ways in which regional populations and cross-border interactions have forged modern nations.

Author : Ferdinand J.M. Feldbrugge,Roger Clark,Stanislaw Pomorski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480766

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International and National Law in Russia and Eastern Europe by Ferdinand J.M. Feldbrugge,Roger Clark,Stanislaw Pomorski Pdf

The disappearance of the USSR as a superpower, to be replaced by the Russian Federation and a host of new states, has had wide-ranging consequences in the field of law. The establishment of market economies and the need to set up institutional frameworks to foster the rule of law have precipitated comprehensive domestic law reforms in the countries concerned. The major focus of the present work, however, is on the metamorphosis of the network of international law relations, brought about by the fundamental change in the political and constitutional climate and the emergence of numerous new actors. Apart from the relations between states as the classical province of international law, the impact of international law on national legal orders has acquired overwhelming importance and the successor states of the Soviet Union have not escaped the effect of this development. Some of the most urgent questions thrown up by these developments are analyzed by a team of leading legal specialists from the Russian Federation, North America, and Western Europe.

Author : J. Scott-Keltie,M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1530 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230270497

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The Statesman's Year-Book by J. Scott-Keltie,M. Epstein Pdf

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1556 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Political science
ISBN : PRNC:32101072368457

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The Statesman's Year-book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Libraries
ISBN : WISC:89096041975

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Wisconsin Library Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Homer Haskins,Robert Howard Lord
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066425272

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Some Problems of the Peace Conference by Charles Homer Haskins,Robert Howard Lord Pdf

"Some Problems of the Peace Conference" by Charles Homer Haskins|Robert Howard Lord. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : David A. Welch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521558689

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Justice and the Genesis of War by David A. Welch Pdf

Studies of the causes of wars generally presuppose a 'realist' account of motivation: when statesmen choose to wage war, they do so for purposes of self-preservation or self-aggrandizement. In this book, however, David Welch argues that humans are motivated by normative concerns, the pursuit of which may result in behaviour inconsistent with self-interest. He examines the effect of one particular type of normative motivation - the justice motive - in the outbreak of five Great Power wars: the Crimean war, the Franco-Prussian war, World War I, World War II, and the Falklands war. Realist theory would suggest that these wars would be among the least likely to be influenced by considerations other than power and interest, but the author demonstrates that the justice motive played an important role in the genesis of war, and that its neglect by theorists of international politics is a major oversight.

Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1471 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230270589

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The Statesman's Year-Book by M. Epstein Pdf

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Author : G. Sluga
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230625037

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Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870-1919 by G. Sluga Pdf

This volume offers a new cultural and political history of the idea of the nation. Situating the history of international politics and the idea of the nation in the history of psychology, it reveals the popularity and political importance of a transnational discourse of the psychology of nations that had taken shape in the previous half-century.